02 August 2022

WHO: Gay Men Should Reduce Their Partners To Avoid Monkeypox

Monkeypox is here
Gay men should "for the moment" reduce partners and reconsider sleeping with new people in order to try to halt the global spread of monkeypox, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said last 27 July.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference in Geneva that 98 percent of the more than 18,000 recent monkeypox cases reported to the agency had been among men who sleep with other men. He urged members of this community to take steps to protect themselves amid the public health emergency.

01 August 2022

Monkeypox Can Spread From Gays To The Rest Of The Population

Monkeypox Vaccine
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), anyone can get monkeypox> However, in the latest outbreak, the virus is predominantly spreading among gay and bisexual men. Officials noted last 25 July that most of the people affected reported some level of sexual activity.

Prolonged skin-to-skin contact is one of the major ways monkeypox is spreading. This includes sexually abhorrent acts like anal sex, which the gays are fond of doing.

29 July 2022

Renaming Monkeypox? Online Suggestions Include "Gaypox" and "Booty-Slam Virus"

Gaypox
As New York City's health department are slow in dealing with now more than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox, city leaders are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately rename the monkeypox virus.

In a letter to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gehebreyesus, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan wrote that while the Big Apple remains concerned about rapidly increasing transmission and limited access to testing resources and vaccine supply, it has a "growing concern" for stigmatizing and "potentially devastating" impacts the messaging around monkeypox can have on vulnerable communities.

28 July 2022

US SC Ruled That Public Funds Can Be Used For Religious Education

Catholic Schools
The U.S. Supreme Court made another laudable ruling after it prevented Maine parents from using the state’s publicly-funded tuition assistance program to send their kids to private religious schools.

The 6-3 decision last 19 June — the latest in a series of rulings favoring arguments for religious liberty — comes after civil-rights advocates tried to undermine secular rights.

22 July 2022

Wisconsin SC Ruled That Trans Sex Offender Birth Name Is Valid

Wisconsin SC
According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the fact that a transgender woman can't change her legal name because she's on the sex offender registry as a male does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, or violate her free speech rights.

The 4-3 decision last 7 July took up 81 pages in three opinions that featured some stark differences about "originalism" and adapting law to modern times, and even sharp differences about pronoun use.